Irene Fullingim was born on 22 June 1910 in a log cabin nine miles west of Ada, Pontotoc Co.,Oklahoma. She was the second child born to John Wade and Myrtle (Lowe) Fullingim, and lived her early years primarily in S.E. Oklahoma. Due to the combination of hard economic times and her father's abuse of alcohol, the family moved frequently, and Irene was not able to graduate high school.
In the early 1930s the family, by then composed of five children—Furman, Irene, Paul, A.L. "Shorty," and Marie, moved west of Ringwood in north central Oklahoma, where they worked as tenant farmers. The Fullingims farmed the quarter owner by Ref McClure, just south of the Michael Frickel's 160-acre homestead (NW 1/4 of Section 2, Township 23 North, Range 10 West). They attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was centrally located in this rural community of primarily German immigrant farmers in Major County, Oklahoma.
During this time, Irene was married to a young man but not for very long. It seems that the young man left the house one evening after some kind of disagreement (details are very slim and dubious at best), and he was never seen or heard from afterwards!! As the story goes, it turned very cold on this same evening and sometime during the night a very large pile of brush caught on fire in this rural community; people wandered whether the young man had fallen asleep under the brush pile as a makeshift shelter and his campfire accidentally fueled out of control. No remains were discovered. Because of marriage abandonment, the marriage was legally annulled, and the young man's name has literally been lost to the family's memory.
When the Fullingims returned to Antlers, Oklahoma, in the mid 1930s, Irene's oldest brother, Furman, stayed on in the Ringwood area and was later married to Irma Stella Frickel in late 1939. Earlier that same year, Irene was married to Jay Floyd McDonald on 5 August 1939 at Antlers, Oklahoma.
Irene and Floyd moved to Oklahoma City in 1943, where Irene worked variously, including professional cake decorating and as an alteration specialist for Park's Menswear Store. Floyd worked as a professional mover, and later as a custodian for the Oklahoma City Board of Education, from which he retired in 1970. Both Irene and her husband were members of the May Avenue Wesleyan Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They had no children.
Irene died on November 15, 1990, having outlived her husband fourteen years. Rev. Dr. J. Michael Fullingim, a nephew of Irene's, conducted her funeral. Both Irene and her husband were interred in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Isaac Foster Fullingim
Martha Ann (Golden) Fullingim
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS
William Erwin "Bill" Lowe
Ellena Josephine "Leny" (Russell) Lowe
In the early 1930s the family, by then composed of five children—Furman, Irene, Paul, A.L. "Shorty," and Marie, moved west of Ringwood in north central Oklahoma, where they worked as tenant farmers. The Fullingims farmed the quarter owner by Ref McClure, just south of the Michael Frickel's 160-acre homestead (NW 1/4 of Section 2, Township 23 North, Range 10 West). They attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was centrally located in this rural community of primarily German immigrant farmers in Major County, Oklahoma.
During this time, Irene was married to a young man but not for very long. It seems that the young man left the house one evening after some kind of disagreement (details are very slim and dubious at best), and he was never seen or heard from afterwards!! As the story goes, it turned very cold on this same evening and sometime during the night a very large pile of brush caught on fire in this rural community; people wandered whether the young man had fallen asleep under the brush pile as a makeshift shelter and his campfire accidentally fueled out of control. No remains were discovered. Because of marriage abandonment, the marriage was legally annulled, and the young man's name has literally been lost to the family's memory.
When the Fullingims returned to Antlers, Oklahoma, in the mid 1930s, Irene's oldest brother, Furman, stayed on in the Ringwood area and was later married to Irma Stella Frickel in late 1939. Earlier that same year, Irene was married to Jay Floyd McDonald on 5 August 1939 at Antlers, Oklahoma.
Irene and Floyd moved to Oklahoma City in 1943, where Irene worked variously, including professional cake decorating and as an alteration specialist for Park's Menswear Store. Floyd worked as a professional mover, and later as a custodian for the Oklahoma City Board of Education, from which he retired in 1970. Both Irene and her husband were members of the May Avenue Wesleyan Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They had no children.
Irene died on November 15, 1990, having outlived her husband fourteen years. Rev. Dr. J. Michael Fullingim, a nephew of Irene's, conducted her funeral. Both Irene and her husband were interred in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Isaac Foster Fullingim
Martha Ann (Golden) Fullingim
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS
William Erwin "Bill" Lowe
Ellena Josephine "Leny" (Russell) Lowe
Irene Fullingim was born on 22 June 1910 in a log cabin nine miles west of Ada, Pontotoc Co.,Oklahoma. She was the second child born to John Wade and Myrtle (Lowe) Fullingim, and lived her early years primarily in S.E. Oklahoma. Due to the combination of hard economic times and her father's abuse of alcohol, the family moved frequently, and Irene was not able to graduate high school.
In the early 1930s the family, by then composed of five children—Furman, Irene, Paul, A.L. "Shorty," and Marie, moved west of Ringwood in north central Oklahoma, where they worked as tenant farmers. The Fullingims farmed the quarter owner by Ref McClure, just south of the Michael Frickel's 160-acre homestead (NW 1/4 of Section 2, Township 23 North, Range 10 West). They attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was centrally located in this rural community of primarily German immigrant farmers in Major County, Oklahoma.
During this time, Irene was married to a young man but not for very long. It seems that the young man left the house one evening after some kind of disagreement (details are very slim and dubious at best), and he was never seen or heard from afterwards!! As the story goes, it turned very cold on this same evening and sometime during the night a very large pile of brush caught on fire in this rural community; people wandered whether the young man had fallen asleep under the brush pile as a makeshift shelter and his campfire accidentally fueled out of control. No remains were discovered. Because of marriage abandonment, the marriage was legally annulled, and the young man's name has literally been lost to the family's memory.
When the Fullingims returned to Antlers, Oklahoma, in the mid 1930s, Irene's oldest brother, Furman, stayed on in the Ringwood area and was later married to Irma Stella Frickel in late 1939. Earlier that same year, Irene was married to Jay Floyd McDonald on 5 August 1939 at Antlers, Oklahoma.
Irene and Floyd moved to Oklahoma City in 1943, where Irene worked variously, including professional cake decorating and as an alteration specialist for Park's Menswear Store. Floyd worked as a professional mover, and later as a custodian for the Oklahoma City Board of Education, from which he retired in 1970. Both Irene and her husband were members of the May Avenue Wesleyan Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They had no children.
Irene died on November 15, 1990, having outlived her husband fourteen years. Rev. Dr. J. Michael Fullingim, a nephew of Irene's, conducted her funeral. Both Irene and her husband were interred in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Isaac Foster Fullingim
Martha Ann (Golden) Fullingim
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS
William Erwin "Bill" Lowe
Ellena Josephine "Leny" (Russell) Lowe
In the early 1930s the family, by then composed of five children—Furman, Irene, Paul, A.L. "Shorty," and Marie, moved west of Ringwood in north central Oklahoma, where they worked as tenant farmers. The Fullingims farmed the quarter owner by Ref McClure, just south of the Michael Frickel's 160-acre homestead (NW 1/4 of Section 2, Township 23 North, Range 10 West). They attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was centrally located in this rural community of primarily German immigrant farmers in Major County, Oklahoma.
During this time, Irene was married to a young man but not for very long. It seems that the young man left the house one evening after some kind of disagreement (details are very slim and dubious at best), and he was never seen or heard from afterwards!! As the story goes, it turned very cold on this same evening and sometime during the night a very large pile of brush caught on fire in this rural community; people wandered whether the young man had fallen asleep under the brush pile as a makeshift shelter and his campfire accidentally fueled out of control. No remains were discovered. Because of marriage abandonment, the marriage was legally annulled, and the young man's name has literally been lost to the family's memory.
When the Fullingims returned to Antlers, Oklahoma, in the mid 1930s, Irene's oldest brother, Furman, stayed on in the Ringwood area and was later married to Irma Stella Frickel in late 1939. Earlier that same year, Irene was married to Jay Floyd McDonald on 5 August 1939 at Antlers, Oklahoma.
Irene and Floyd moved to Oklahoma City in 1943, where Irene worked variously, including professional cake decorating and as an alteration specialist for Park's Menswear Store. Floyd worked as a professional mover, and later as a custodian for the Oklahoma City Board of Education, from which he retired in 1970. Both Irene and her husband were members of the May Avenue Wesleyan Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They had no children.
Irene died on November 15, 1990, having outlived her husband fourteen years. Rev. Dr. J. Michael Fullingim, a nephew of Irene's, conducted her funeral. Both Irene and her husband were interred in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Isaac Foster Fullingim
Martha Ann (Golden) Fullingim
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS
William Erwin "Bill" Lowe
Ellena Josephine "Leny" (Russell) Lowe
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